- summary
- On 17 February 2026 Hungarian public television broadcast a 60-minute 'documentary' (Mi vagyunk a világ, 'We Are the World') commissioned by the Fidesz parliamentary group for about HUF 363 million (€900,000) of public money. It claimed a network of Hungarian CSOs and independent media was secretly funded by the United States to influence Hungarian politics, showing a 'network' diagram with their names and logos. The Director of the Sovereignty Protection Office was one of its three main speakers, although courts had already found that the Office published false information about at least one of the outlets named.
- country
- Hungary
- date text
- 17/02/2026
- entities
- Fidesz parliamentary group (commissioned and paid); public broadcaster; Sovereignty Protection Office Director (speaker)
- entity type
- Government / Regime-aligned media
- id
- 1169
- name
- Fidesz parliamentary group (commissioned and paid); public broadcaster; Sovereignty Protection Office Director (speaker)
- role
- actor
- Named CSOs and media: Menedék, Háttér Society, Budapest Pride, Amnesty International Hungary, Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union; Telex, 444.hu, Direk…
- entity type
- CSO; Media
- id
- 1170
- name
- Named CSOs and media: Menedék, Háttér Society, Budapest Pride, Amnesty International Hungary, Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union; Telex, 444.hu, Direkt36, Átlátszó
- role
- target
- Fidesz parliamentary group (commissioned and paid); public broadcaster; Sovereignty Protection Office Director (speaker)
- sources
- tactics
- Pseudo-documentary / Propaganda Film
- label
- Pseudo-documentary / Propaganda Film
- code
- TC-15
- needs review
- false
- role
- primary
- Coordinated Media Amplification
- label
- Coordinated Media Amplification
- code
- TC-06
- needs review
- false
- role
- secondary
- Pseudo-documentary / Propaganda Film
- narratives
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- label
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- code
- NF-01
- needs review
- false
- role
- primary
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- campaign ids
- channels
- State-funded propaganda film broadcast on public television (M1)
- consequence category
- Social Trust Erosion
- created at
- 2026-09-25T12:58:51.130299+00:00
- date precision
- day
- escalation
- 3
- harm track
- Track 2 — Social Trust Erosion
- id
- HUN-023
- institutional consequence
- Narrative damage; Chilling effect
- notes
- Coded Sep 25 2026 from Civic Space Watch. Broadcast two months before the April 2026 election. Same named organisations as the SPO's earlier reports (HUN-009).
- occurred on
- 2026-02-17
- trigger type
- TR-04: Electoral Event
- updated at
- 2026-09-25T12:58:51.130299+00:00
- version
- 1
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